“As special as it is to listen to your friends argue over whether or not you have a mental illness,I'm starting to… — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
“After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn’t chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, "Buffeted but not… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.” — Allie Burke Copy Share Image
Sometimes the pain hurts so good it brings happy tears to my eyes and reminds me I'm still alive. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Any other illness and you have time off work, but there is a lot of stigma around mental illness. It's frightening to… — Zoe Ball Copy Share Image
“Age, mental illness, and failure are all in the mind. They put the pain there to let you know it hurts.” — David Holmes Copy Share Image
True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Mental illness, unfortunately, is an invisible disease: it's not seen or heard. For whatever reason, because of that, society has decided that… — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I'd love for mental illness to be seen in the way that other horrible illnesses are. When people get cancer, very few… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I could feel myself begin to recede, to tip and lose balance, slide toward the deeper darkness that had crept in from… — Bryan Mealer Copy Share Image
“Like many self-help books, The Deepest Blue is full of horrifyingly simplistic language and some admittedly good advice. Somehow the women in… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
“The really hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. “Many of them… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Debbie Nathan’s thesis is that Shirley Mason was a vulnerable hysteric and was manipulated by her therapist into iatrogenic DID and false… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
“Janna knew - Rikki knew — and I knew, too — that becoming Dr Cameron West wouldn't make me feel a damn… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. … Gender equality is your issue, too. … I've… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
“The individual who "adjusts" has managed to relegate the two contradictory injunctions of the double bind - to imitate and not to… — René Girard Copy Share Image
“ Tempting as it may be to draw one conclusion or another from my story and universalize it to apply to another's experience,… — Rachel Reiland Copy Share Image
“But since Catt was more realist than fabulist, she understood her actual death at the hands of her killer would be something… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Thinking - thinking real hard. My grandmother knew when I was down. She knew what to do She would encourage me to… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
“To actually accept that you have an eating disorder or a mental health issue is actually a sign of great, great strength.… — Nigel Owens Copy Share Image
“Depression is a physical illness, like bleeding from a wound that won’t close. You cannot fix it, it doesn’t heal.” — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
Having a mental illness does not mean you're weak or can't handle life. You can have a mental illness and deal with… — Torrey DeVitto Copy Share Image
Many churches assume all mental illness is spiritual in nature & reflects a weakness or lack of faith. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression. — Gail Porter Copy Share Image
“Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
A lot of people are ashamed to talk about mental illness. To me, it's power to give people that. — Ahmad Balshe Copy Share Image
When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Mental illness and eating disorders can affect anyone - every age, race, and gender - and I'm so proud to be a… — Matthew Koma Copy Share Image
I've invaded the walls of the asylums with my ink pen. The way they look at mental illness won't be the same… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
There was a really positive environment in my household around a conversation about mental illness, and that helped me never really feel… — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me. — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
